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Why Women Won by Claudia Goldin Following the success of our first public lecture, we are pleased to announce the next RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture, organized in collaboration with the Humboldt University of Berlin! This year, RFB...

Join us on 4 November for the RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture: “Why Women Won” by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin.
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Discover how women’s roles in work and society have evolved and what challenges remain
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🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Peter Fredriksson, @dgulumser.bsky.social, and @lenahensvik.bsky.social study whether and why differential wage responsiveness to outside offers contributes to the gender wage gap within job. 🧵

8/ Overall, the network job opportunities are known and valued by both genders, but only used by men to bid up wages in current jobs.

Interpreted through the lens of our model, our results show that limited opportunities for renegotiation among women is one of the drivers of within job wage gap.

7/ First, we find a similar impact on mobility to connected workplaces in response to network job openings for men and women.

Second, among blue collar workers (a group with limited scope for individual wage negotiation), we do not find a wage response to outside options for any of the genders.

Men's wages (figure on the left-hand side) respond to job openings while women's wages remain unaffected (figure on the right-hand side)

6/ Our main results show that: When a job opens in their family's network, men get a significant wage increase from their current employer.

Women's wages, however, remain unaffected.

To shed light on the mechanisms, we provide two important pieces of evidence.

The quality of expanding plant characteristics (where family connections are currently employed) is balanced across genders.

5/ We exploit outside opportunities emerging at plants to which workers are connected via their family network since...

a) they are central mediators of information on job opportunities.

b) quality of outside options balanced across genders (see figure). This isn't true for professional networks.

4/ Third, it is likely that the attractiveness of a given offer differs systematically across the genders.

Our empirical strategy addresses all of these challenges.

So how do we address this?
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3/ Yet, empirically addressing this question requires us to tackle a number of challenges.

First, information on outside job offers is rarely available in register data.

Second, individual differences in the number of outside offers are likely confounded by variation in individual productivity.

2/ We first develop a model of OTJ search capturing gender differences in job preferences (commuting aversion among women) and cost of wage renegotiation (among women).

We show that both of these reduce women’s share of match-specific rents but have distinct predictions on job mobility.

1/ Even within the same job at the same firm, women earn less than men. Why?

Our new research investigates the role of outside job opportunities in driving this within job gender pay gap.

🚨 Excited to share a new CEPR Discussion Paper (No. 20638) 🚨
“Outside Job Opportunities and the Gender Gap in Pay” with Peter Fredriksson and @lenahensvik.bsky.social.

Read here: cepr.org/publications...

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Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.

When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.

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Why Are Nordic Workers so Remote?: Potential Causes and (Some) Indirect Labor Market Consequences Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New NBER WP (forthcoming book chapter) with @adam-gill.bsky.social and Lena Hensvik on the very high rates of work-from-home in all Nordic countries -- already before the pandemic. Some likely causes, and some consequences for service workers www.nber.org/papers/w33581

Submit your "core" labor economics papers (wages, employment..) to this great workshop I co-organize for the third time - join with, e.g., Cardoso, Machin, Mogstad and Spitz-Oener for some serious Labor Economics in Helsinki in August!

Apply to the Uppsala econ Ph.D. Program!

We run a US-style program with generous pay, opportunities to spend time abroad, and lots of supervision.

To convince you, let me highlight some of amazing work by our recent graduates.

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Amin Hussain I am a 5th Year PhD Economics Student at Uppsala University. Research Interests: Micro-theory and Mechanism Design with applications to Health and Political Economy

Amin Hussain is on the market this year. His JMP makes important contributions to the pricing of multi-use drugs. Let me explain why

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Hi #EconSky! I’m a PhD Candidate in Economics at Uppsala University.

My #EconJMP investigates how firms’ previous employment experience in a particular occupation affects hiring standards, wages, and post-hiring outcomes.

Find out more about my research here: sites.google.com/view/dogangu...

🚨Out now: Our new OECD working paper on the gender wage gap and the role of bargaining and discrimination.
📄Read now: doi.org/10.1787/1fd6...